PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Teenage Pregnancy, Fallopian Tube, Closed Adoption

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3123
• Professor: Caroline Sullivan

Document Summary

Enlarging the family circle: various reasons, both personal and social, for having children, having a child results in change in status and is a marker event, over past 50 years, significant drop in canadian fertility rate. 2009: 1. 7 children per woman: social pressure to have children, or to follow the social script. Myth of motherhood frames motherhood as an instinct that can fulfill a woman in a way no other experience can. Another part of the myth is the importance of having a child of each sex. Some unmarried women in their (cid:885)(cid:882)s and (cid:886)(cid:882)s hear their (cid:498)biological clock(cid:499) and choose to have children, some without a long-term partner. The social script: only 7 % of canadian women do not have children, structural therories: Fertility rates in canada: although pressure on couples to have children is almost as strong as ever, size of the canadian family has been shrinking.